"You must forget about internal feuds. The party will nominate candidates to contest the elections and you will have to vote for the symbol of boat even if a useless person gets the nomination," Hasina said.

The opposition leader was addressing a programme at her Dhanmondi office where former navy chief Rear Admiral (retd) M Abu Taher, former Jatiya Party general secretary of Faridpur district Saiful Islam Nilu and its former secretary Fazlur Rahman joined the AL with large number of followers.

Hasina also asked her party leaders and activists to be aware of 'ill motives' of the BNP-Jamaat alliance government in the next election.

"They (ruling alliance) have earned a huge amount of money illegally in last few years and will try to manipulate the next election with that money," she said.

About the preparation of the fresh voter roll, she said the election could never take place with the voter list that is currently being prepared by the Election Commission (EC).

Regarding BNP's Senior Secretary General Tarique Rahman's comment on 65 lakh fake voters in the existing voter list, the AL chief said, "If such a number of fake voters had cast their votes in the 2001 election, then the election was obviously illegal. And if it was so then the present government should step down from power immediately."

She said the Chief Election Commissioner MA Aziz is suffering from 'a disease of stealing votes for the ruling alliance in the next election', which the physicians could not identify.

The alliance government has been playing games with the people regarding the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), she said. "The BNP-Jamaat men will be found guilty of corruption if the commission is activated, and that is the only reason to keep the ACC inactive."

The ACC should find out how a number of Television channels have got licenses and the source of income of the channels' owners, who are mostly ministers of the alliance government, she said.

Hasina urged the people who live in villages to be united to launch movements in every village for electricity and to protest the killing of ten people in the recent police shooting at Kansat in Chapainawabganj. She said the BNP government killed 17 labourers and 18 farmers during their 1991 to 1996 regime and this time they killed ten innocent people who were demonstrating for adequate electricity supply.

She also said the coalition government has politicised the Election Commission and the administration to fabricate people's mandate in the next election. "They know very well that people would not vote for them in the next election for their immense corruption, torture and harassments and for this they have finalised everything to rig the election."

Hasina also criticised the government bigwigs for creating 'artificial crisis of diesel and oil to make their fortunes'.

The programme was also attended by AL leaders Zillur Rahman, Abdul Jalil, Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Obaidul Quader, Aktheruzzaman and Col (retd) Faruk Khan.